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Show GERMAN GIRL'S ROMANCE ENDS AT ELLIS ISLAND Came Here to WcJ Ohio Doctor, but May Be Deported Deport-ed as He Failed to Appear. NEW YORK, Dec. 16. A pretty and well educated German girl, Anna Gertrude Ger-trude Radecke. Is under detention at Ellis Island and her romance with a young doctor from East Liverpool, O., appears to have been shattered." According Ac-cording to her story she was to have married him here Immediately upon her arrival from Berlin. In .that city the Ohioan met Anna while sh wi.s taking a special course of t"y. Six months ago she says they were betrothed at her home and the etude returned to America, Two months a-ter a-ter she received $100 and a letter instructing in-structing her to sail for New York. She arrived In due season, but the Immigration Im-migration officials refused to allow her to leave the ship until some one cauld prove his right to protect her. As her name was called out in the second cabin a woman stepped up and cried: "This marriage . cannot take place; the doctor is my nephew, and I have come to Inform this woman that she must go back to Germany." Miss Radecke was taken to Ellis Island, where she wept for hours. An attorney representing the persons who had stopped the girl visited her later and offered to supply funds for her return re-turn home, but she spurned his offer and declared she could earn her own livelihood if allowed to land. |